Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue Which morality is in question? That of the race or that placed upon A woman’s place Without valor, without honor But with grace Men gone to war Their valor – their morality Then me… In line...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue Dear, you said you felt bad for anything that’s had to live inside My Uterus. I suppose, because I refuse to allow you access to police it. see, My Uterus has nourished two embryos from conception to...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue as i grow up i learn to spit out words of distaste to bite only the cookies that are under-baked to rename my identity out of spite in response my mother tells me that she who asks for...
ferrous wheel: a chapbook Author: Natalie Sharp Tarantism Press, 2016 ISBN: 978-1-52390-421-1 $15.00 Hide and Seek From the Top of the ferrous wheel It’s morning in the world of ferrous wheel by Natalie Sharp. It’s early and humid, and the speaker has managed...
Where is your usual starting point – in research, an image, the middle of a story, an outline? The place a poem begins varies for me. In some poems, like “Burning Trash,” I begin with an image – in that case, the image was of a fire burning inside an old...
Graffiti Calculus by Mary-Sherman Willis CW Books/Word Tech Communications, 2013 92 pages ISBN978-1625490568 Review by Rose Solari I begin by admitting that I have particular interest in and admiration for the book-length poem or poetic sequence. It is not...